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night. ♪ this girl is on fire captioning funded by cbs this is the "cbs morning news" for monday, february 11th, 2013. good morning. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. well, a string of tornadoes struck the southeast united states late yesterday and overnight. at least 15 tornadoes were reported in alabama and mississippi. in southern mississippi a large tornado damaged hundreds of homes in the hattiesburg area. the massive storm hit late yesterday afternoon, rumbling through four counties, traveling straight down one of hattiesburg' main streets. the governor has declare add state of emergency. the tornado damaged at least six buildings on the campus of the university of southern mississippi. >> i saw it right around as it was crossing interstate 59. it was coming pretty fast.

my heart was racing. i've lived here my whole life and this is surreal. it's really hard to take it in right now. >> no students were injured. most were off campus on break. rain and warmer temperatures should help wash away of what was a record-breaking winter blizzard. the massive storm was blamed for at least 15 deaths and more than 150,000 customers are without power and it may take days before their power is restored. new york city got off easy, though, with just 11 inches of snow. boston got over 2 feet. portland, maine, set a record of 32 inches. and the city of camden got 40 inches. marlie hall reports. >> reporter: nearly half the roads in camden, connecticut, are still impassable. thomas rossman is clearing over three feet of snow from around his home. >> there are a lot of people around here they haven't touched

yet. they can't get out. >> reporter: some believe the town should have been more prepared. >> there is a time that as prepared as you are, mother nature deals your card that you cannot manage. >> reporter: in new britain, dump trucks are clearing snow. they say they won't be finished until the early morning hours. one crew says they'll make about a hundred trips before the job is done. >> i dump a load probably every five to ten minutes. >> there's quite a bit of snow. >> reporter: along the massachusetts coast where the sto snow and storm surges were a lethal combination, people went to check the damage. >> if you want to have this view and be on the ocean like this, you're just going to have to put up with nature. nature rules. >> reporter: despite the risks, the morrisons have no plans to

give up their oceanfront home. marlie hall for cbs news, new britain, connecticut. well, the storm caused all kinds of transportation problems. on eastern long island, slammed by 30 inches of snow, hundreds of motorists were stranded on the long island expressway, some overnight. yesterday a 20-mile stretch of the l.i.e. was closed so road crews could clear the snow and move abandoned cars. officials hope to open the roads today. the los angeles area remains on edge this morning as a fugitive ex-cop who says he's targeted police continues to evade a massive manhunt. christopher dorner is suspected of killing three people. authorities put up a $1 million reward for information leading to his capture. soon after the reward was announced there was a report of a sighting of dorner in a store in a san fernando valley. but the search came up emtry. carter evans has more. >> reporter: the massive and so

far fruitless search for christopher dorner has put everyone on edge. anthony. >> we'll not deal with this man on terror. >> reporter: the $1 million reward is the largest ever for the city. lapd chief charlie beck. >> every day that dorner is loose, the likelihood of an attack on either a uniformed police officer or a family of a police officer is likely. >> reporter: it's been four days since dorner's burnt out truck was found near the resort town of big bear, but since then the trail has gone ice cold. by sunday only 25 officers were on the hunt for dorner, down from more than 100 on friday. the search area keeps expanding. 150 miles to the south authorities are checking cars heading to mexico. authorities have now released the name of one of dorner's

victims. officer michael crane died thursday when his car was ambushed. he was 34 years old, a veteran and a former marine. a second victim was remembered. monica quan was an assistant basketball coach. on saturday her team paid tribute. her father, former lapd randy quan. >> there are over 150 families who have not only security but surveillance in and around their neighborhoods. >> reporter: chief beck says he considers the attacks on the families and the police officers domestic terrorism. nevertheless he's reopened the case. he said he's not bending to dorn 'eers demand but rather to demonstrate the transparency of the lapd. carter evans, cbs news, los angeles. well, the manhunt prompted los angeles police to step up security at the staples center

as music celebrated its biggest night. at this year's grammy awards there were some memorable performances and surprise winners. teresa garcia is in los angeles with all the highlights. teresa, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, anne-marie. there was indeed plenty of security on the streets and behind the scenes. remember, this was a night to party. there were no issues in that sense, and at this year's grammys, there were so many top acts it really varied in musical style and the recording academy recorded quite a number of them. they lived up to their reputation for being unpredictable. >> we figured we weren't going to win anything because the black keys have been sweeping up everything. >> black keys took home for gramphones including producer of the year and three in the rock

categories. fun. made a splash as well. >> and the grammy goes to "we are young." >> she said "we," and we were like, could it be us? >> and gauthier took home three grammys but it was harder to tell if he was more exciten the statue or his idol prince presented the award. >> many years we've seen this man's musical growing up. it inspired me to mace music. >> reporter: the trophies are nice but usually it's the performances that make it the most. taylor swift got it started with her mad hatter rendition of "we're nerve getting back together." and what better way to make a comeback. justin timberlake used the

industry's biggest stage to relaunch his music career. and, anne-marie, it was a really great night with a lot of collaboration on stage. you saw so many duos, for example, alicia keys performing with maroon five, miranda lambert and bruno mars paying tribute to bob marley. back to you. >> theresa garcia in los angeles. thanks. coming up on the "morning news," confirmation site. a republican senator promises to delay a vote in order to get answers about the terror attack in benghazi. and later compact cars go high concept. we'll show you why microcars are a big hit in japan. add a pop of color to your everyday look.

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you're going to block them from coming to a vote until you get an answer to this. >> yes. >> reporter: on cbs's "face the nation" sunday, senator lindsey graham acknowledges he would use a rule that allow as senator to put a hold on presidential nominees. he hopes by delaying the confirmation of chuck hagel and john brennan he can force the white house to answer questions about how much president obama knew about the september 11th attack in benghazi. >> i want to know what our president did. what did he do as commander in chief. did he ever pick up the phone and call anybody? i think this is stuff that the country needs to know. >> reporter: four americans including ambassador chris stevens were killed in an assault on the u.s. consulate. the republicans have accused the administration of miss leeding the public about the attack. >> this white house has been stalwarting the conference. aisle get to the bottom of this and find out what the mistakes were and find out what the

president did. >> reporter: grahams willingness to block the nominees has worked once already. last month he signaling he would take action to prevent brennan and haggle's confirmation unless secretary leon panetta and chair marn of the joint chiefs of staff testified on benghazi. they were on capitol hill last week but senator jack reed says graham is overreacting. >> this is critical. at a time that we're looking at sequester,ing look forward, we're looking at crises across the globe, to dwell on a tragic incident and use that to block people is not appropriate. >> now, if senator graham does put a hold on these two confirmations, democrats would have to muster 60 votes in order to proceed, and he was not the only prominent republican coming out over the weekend to weigh in on these two confirmations. former vice president dick cheney called both hagel and brennan second rate and said their appointments would

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today is monday february 11th. i'm andrea roane. >> and i'm mike haiduk. if you didn't stay up for the grammys you missed one of the best awards ceremonies in years. justin timberlake blew the doors off the place. we'll be talking about it all morning. >> howard didn't see it but he was dreaming of weather and what he was going to tell you this morning. >> reporter: good news, we have some rain around, the rest of the day it will be mild and dry for the afternoon. just a problem perhaps in the morning with some of the wet streets and a few showers around. a little wet right now but as we go through the morning hours a lot of the showers will be east of us. this afternoon a couple of sunny breaks.

a little bit breezy. rain overnight. pockets of freezing rain in pennsylvania. we just have cold rainshowers and you can see the bulk of it now. up through areas northeast of baltimore between baltimore and dc heavier pockets coming into montgomery and howard county especially along and east of 270. it is a raw morning. mid to upper 30s right now, pittsburgh 32. mid to upper 50sing we could get to is 60 a couple of spots south and southwest. let's talk with monika samtani. >> reporter: southbound i-95 after dale city there had been an accident now on the shoulder not causing any delays. but with the rain coming down there was a little bit of slipping and sliding going on.

no issues to report on the north side. at least the roads are okay. they are just wet college park into civil splining and -- silver spring and bethesda. you can see lanes are open and traffic is moving well. heading in on 95 northbound no issues woodbridge into springfield. we'll look on the inbound side i-66, lens is wet but things are okay here. andrea and mike? performances dominated the 55th annual grammy awards. some of the acts topping the charts actually wowed the crowd along with one major come back performance. >> some awards shows can really stink. this was not one of them. it was spectacular. >> reporter: mumford and sons took home album of the year at

the 55th annual grammy awards. but it was a night for fun. the trio sang as it rained on stage and won best new artist and song of the year for we are young. i can't i just remember are the rain powering this is why i got into music a tribal aspect and nothing was going to stop us. >> reporter: chris brown didn't stand when rival frank ocean beat him out for best contemporary urban album. taylor swift kicked off the night of performances. justin timberlake premiered new music from the upcoming album. (audio difficulty)